{"id":249651,"date":"2022-02-16T08:42:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T08:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249651"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:13:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T08:13:58","slug":"sundance-disney-focuses-its-searchlight-on-horror-cannibalism-with-charmer-who-cuts-up-dates-and-eats-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=249651","title":{"rendered":"Sundance: Disney Focuses Its Searchlight on Horror Cannibalism With Charmer Who Cuts Up Dates and Eats \u2018Em"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Friedman \u2013 Showbiz411 Jan 24, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

You will want to become a vegetarian after watching \u201cFresh.\u201d Or should I say, \u201cFlesh.\u201d This is a horror movie that is pretty disgusting, not terribly clever, but one that Disney- yes, Disney\u2013 will release this year.<\/p>\n

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Mimi Cave\u2019s \u201cFresh\u201d is a movie about cannibalism. Yes, cannibalism, the eating of people. Yes, Disney. It\u2019s not a parody or a satire like \u201cGet Out.\u201d It\u2019s a straight up horror film about a charming doctor, played by Sebastian Stan, who seduces women, kidnaps them, and carves out pieces of them for sale to high paying customers. Eventually, they\u2019re all carved up and dead.<\/p>\n

Written by Lauryn Kahn, I guess \u201cFresh\u201d is supposed to be hip. It\u2019s way too hip for me, that\u2019s for sure. (Hip may be on Dr. Steve\u2019s menu.) Disney will release it not on DisneyPlus but on Hulu, and try and distance their brand name. But it\u2019s Disney, folks, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Plodding along the lines of \u201cGet Out\u201d and \u201cParasite,\u201d \u201cFresh\u201d may considered hip because a woman wrote it and another one directed it. But women can make the same mistakes as men. Just because you\u2019ve got a good cinematographer and production designer doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ve got a good movie.<\/p>\n

At his country house, Steve has imprisoned other women when he brings Noa (two by two?) to his lair. She wakes up drugged and chained in a room, where Steve explains how he\u2019ll be carving her up. And he does. From different women he\u2019s taken pieces of their posterior, legs, and other body parts. We get to see interspersed scenes of Steve\u2019s rich, fat customers chowing down on his victims. At one point, he invites Noa to have one of his gourmet meals, and they discuss which part came from which girl.<\/p>\n

(Is this a sly comment on veganism vs. carnivores? I doubt it, and the intent isn\u2019t there for satire.)<\/p>\n

All that saves the film is the casting. Noa is played Daisy Edgar Jones, who comes mostly from TV and is very appealing. Noa\u2019s best friend is Mollie, played by Jojo T. Gibbs, and she makes an impressive movie debut. Dr. Steve is none other than Marvel\u2019s Bucky Barnes, Sebastian Stan, who is not getting good advice on film roles\u2013 he should not have done this. But maybe it\u2019s part of his Disney-Marvel deal.<\/p>\n

Of course the whole thing ends up with a bloody climax and denouement. Cave manages to ratchet up the tension and drama, but nothing here is as sophisticated as they think it is. There is a slight twist when Mollie meets Steve\u2019s family, but I\u2019ll leave that unspoiled here in case you see \u201cFresh.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m bewildered by this turn for Searchlight, the studio of \u201cNomadland\u201d and \u201cThe Shape of Water,\u201d and so many wonderful films. I can\u2019t image the former stewards of this studio wanting this on their resume. But horror is cheap, and it\u2019s \u2018in\u2019.<\/p>\n

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From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Mickey Mouse, Disney is now making movies about cannibalism. Does the fact that it was written and directed by women make this acceptable? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":249653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249652,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249651\/revisions\/249652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}